cocoa

Definitions

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

noun A powder made from cacao seeds after they have been fermented, roasted, shelled, ground, and freed of most of their fat.

noun A beverage made by mixing this powder with sugar in hot water or milk.

noun A moderate brown to reddish brown.

from The Century Dictionary.

noun A beverage made from ground cocoa-nibs. See cocoa-nibs, cacao, and Theobroma.

noun A palm belonging to the genus Cocos, producing the cocoanut.

noun A corrupted form of cacao.

noun The ground kernels of the cacao or chocolate-tree. See cacao and Theobroma.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

(Bot.) A tall palm tree producing the cocoanut (Cocos nucifera) as its fruit. It grows in nearly all tropical countries, attaining a height of sixty or eighty feet. The trunk is without branches, and has a tuft of leaves at the top, each being fifteen or twenty feet in length, and at the base of these the nuts hang in clusters; the cocoanut tree. It is widely planted throughout the tropics, and in some locations as an ornamental tree.

noun A preparation made from the seeds of the chocolate tree, and used in making, a beverage; also the beverage made from cocoa or cocoa shells.

noun the husks which separate from the cacao seeds in preparing them for use.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

noununcountable the dried and partially fermented fatty seeds of the cacao tree from which chocolate is made

noununcountable an unsweetened brown powder made from roasted, ground cocoa beans, used in making chocolate, and in cooking.

noununcountable a hot drink made with milk, cocoa powder, and sugar

nouncountable a cup or mug of this drink

nouncountable a light to medium brown colour

adjective of a light to medium brown colour, like that of cocoa powder